Susan Neiman quotes
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“As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.”
-- Susan NeimanSource : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.153, Princeton University Press
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“Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.”
-- Susan NeimanSource : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press
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“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”
-- Susan NeimanSource : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.159, Random House
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“Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.”
-- Susan NeimanSource : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press
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“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”
-- Susan NeimanSource : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.132, Random House
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“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)”
-- Susan Neiman
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“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”
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“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”
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“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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